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Card 625 of 9982026-08-29 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-29

Off-Peak Journal, for travelling at the wrong time of year

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A twice-yearly travel journal about slow, out-of-season journeys, including sleeper trains, closed-season islands, harvests, and long walks.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-29 issue.

Field notes

The journal organizes its work around seasonal timing rather than a monthly publishing calendar. Its editor says one almond-harvest feature waited fourteen months so the writer could report the right fortnight, and that contributors travel in person with their tickets reimbursed afterward. Current listings include an overnight Brussels route, the Outer Hebrides after the coaches have gone, and an eighty-kilometre Mosel towpath walk. Field notes provide small operational updates, including a Sunday bus correction and telephone-only winter bookings in the Julian Alps.

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